'Ron Bergman Quintessential Reporter to cover Colorful Oakland A’s dynasty of the 1970s.

Bergman's 'Mustache Gang' 1973 Oakland A's honored in recent reunion at the Oakland Coliseum.



'Writing with great verve and a keen wit, Ron 

Bergman was the quintessential reporter to

 cover the colorful Oakland A’s dynasty of the 

1970s.'  ...Susan Slusser, SFGate




   The thing that stood out for me, reading all the tributes to former Oakland A's beat writer Ron Bergman, who passed last week, was his honesty. And, isn't that what newspaper reporting is supposed to be about?  Unlike in this politically correct world of today - especially in San Francisco - Bergman wasn't afraid to 'ruffle feathers' or elephant snouts, as it were. Yet, Bergman remained a beloved figure in the A's clubhouse and was even close friends with some of the players; he was a championship bridge partner to A's pitcher Ken Holtzman. 



 An example of that brutal honesty, was Bergman's 2005 comment about steroids and the Hall of Fame. He is one of few local sportswriters to go against the party line, when discussing Barry Bonds possible induction into the Baseball Hall . Unlike most, who say Bonds should get in because he was All Star caliber 'before steroids' (as if they knew exactly when that was ), Bergman, even then, commented,

"I will not vote for McGwire or Bonds in the first year of their eligibility in order to make a statement of sorts. After that, it depends on what becomes of the allegations against them."

  “Bergy told it like it was,” A’s Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers said. “He was always fair, he did a great job — and if we ever needed a fourth for bridge, he was there. He always had great copy, because there was plenty to write about with those teams.”   Too bad we don't have more Bergmans today instead of the new breed of sportwriter - and even the old breed that cops to the times, getting sucked into the steroid era despite knowing baseball today is not the same as it was - as even fans see now as  shown by dwindling TV ratings and attendance (outside of San Francisco).   For more on Ron Bergman, see Susan Slusser's SFGate  story

  Breaking-From one dynasty to another (?)... S.F. GIANTS CONTINUE UNLIKELY RUN WITH UNLIKELY NO-HIT PITCHER, UNLIKELY HITTING SURGE  

Now Giants Pitching Raises PED Questions with Petit's Sudden Surge

Now Giants Pitching Raises PED Questions with Petit's Sudden Surge

Looking back at Petit, Now and then....

He had never pitched a shutout before , let alone a complete game. He had only won 10 games and lost 20 in a journeyman 10 year career. Now at an age when pitchers with his history are already out of the game or close to it, Yasmeiro Petit is suddenly pitching better than all the other Giant starting pitchers - and most in baseball for that matter.

So, he didn't quite get the perfect game September 6, coming just one hit away, the Giants fans are ecstatic, of course. But before we get too excited, one has to question this picture.

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When the Giants top starters Bumgardner, Cain, Linsecum haven't come this nearly close to a perfect game how the heck can  an over the hill nobody  do it. Think Brady Anderson suddenly nitting 40 homers one year after never hitting more than 10  before or after. 

In three years with Arizona, before coming to the Giants he had over a 5. ERA with less than a strikeout per inning. After leaving baseball for two years he comes to the Giants at age 30 and cuts his ERA nearly in half and more than a strikeout per inning. He's never been known as a velocity pitcher yet his velocity, if anything has gone up a little since 2009 instead of beginning to drop as it usually does for pitchers around age 30

Standard Pitching  YASMEIRO PETIT

• Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
  2006	21	FLA	NL	1	1	.500	9.57	15	1	5	0	0	0	26.1	46	28	28	7	9	1	20	0	0	0	129	46	2.089	15.7	2.4	3.1	6.8	2.22
  2007	22	ARI	NL	3	4	.429	4.58	14	10	2	0	0	0	57.0	58	30	29	12	18	1	40	0	1	0	243	104	1.333	9.2	1.9	2.8	6.3	2.22
  2008	23	ARI	NL	3	5	.375	4.31	19	8	6	0	0	0	56.1	45	29	27	12	14	2	42	1	1	3	229	107	1.047	7.2	1.9	2.2	6.7	3.00
  2009	24	ARI	NL	3	10	.231	5.82	23	17	2	0	0	0	89.2	102	62	58	19	34	1	74	0	0	3	407	77	1.517	10.2	1.9	3.4	7.4	2.18
  2012	27	SFG	NL	0	0		3.86	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.2	7	2	2	0	4	0	1	0	0	1	22	100	2.357	13.5	0.0	7.7	1.9	0.25
  2013	28	SFG	NL	2	0	1.000	3.12	3	2	0	0	0	0	17.1	19	6	6	1	4	0	23	0	0	0	72	110	1.327	9.9	0.5	2.1	11.9	5.75
  6 Yrs				12	20	.375	5.37	75	39	15	0	0	0	251.1	277	157	150	51	83	5	200	1	2	7	1102	83	1.432	9.9	1.8	3.0	7.2	2.41
  162 Game Avg.				7	12	.375	5.37	45	23	9	0	0	0	150	165	94	89	30	50	3	119	1	1	4	657	83	1.432	9.9	1.8	3.0	7.2	2.41
  ARI (3 yrs)				9	19	.321	5.05	56	35	10	0	0	0	203.0	205	121	114	43	66	4	156	1	2	6	879	91	1.335	9.1	1.9	2.9	6.9	2.36
  SFG (2 yrs)				2	0	1.000	3.27	4	3	0	0	0	0	22.0	26	8	8	1	8	0	24	0	0	1	94	108	1.545	10.6	0.4	3.3	9.8	3.00
  FLA (1 yr)				1	1	.500	9.57	15	1	5	0	0	0	26.1	46	28	28	7	9	1	20	0	0	0	129	46	2.089	15.7	2.4	3.1	6.8	2.22

Velocity Charts show all of his pitches improving 1-2 mph between 2009 and 2013 with the Giant

PITCHf/x Pitch Velocity

Projections  |  Minor Leagues  |  Regular Seasson

Season	Team	vFA	vFT	vFC	vFS	vFO	vSI	vSL	vCU	vKC	vEP	vCH	vSC	vKN
2007	Diamondbacks	87.9						82.3	73.7			80.4
2008	Diamondbacks	87.1						81.0	74.0			78.3
2009	Diamondbacks	87.3	88.1					78.0	74.5			77.7
2012	Giants	87.6		85.9				80.4	76.6			80.5
2013	Giants	88.1		87.5				83.2	76.3			80.4
Total	- - -	87.4	88.1	87.0				80.0	74.6			78.4

A player just doesn't cut his lifetime ERA in half at an advanced age over a prolonged period. We saw the same thing happen with Scutaro last year, raising his average nearly 100 points the second half of the season after coming to the Giants from Colorado.  Granted it's been only three games so far with the Giants but Petit looks like , if anything, he's improving his numbers and the fact that the Diamond backs showed no improvement but hit worse against him the second time around makes one further ask questions.

-Its not like the Diamondbacks had never seen him before the        




 Sept 6 one hitter...the Diamondbacks had a good look at him last week already.

- You've got the perfect candidate for using PEDs.. the 30 year old pitcher at the crossroads of either retiring  or going for it with PEDs.  At least one minor league Giants coach is known to even have suggested to such action to a player in a similar career situation.

- Latin players, particularly those from Venezuela have been the big culprits in the recent PED busts, with another Venezuelan and Giant, Melky Cabrera , leading the pack last year.com.com  Did we mention that 1/3 of the Giants non-expanded lineup are Venezuelans (8); quite something for a small country to put more players on the Giants than caucasian players. (Note: during the Mitchell report and followup  22 Venezuelans were found complicit in using banned substances - which was third most of any country, right behind the US!

We've seen Venezuelan pitchers for the Giants such as Machi and _____ improve their numbers once with the Giants, but not like what we've seen from Petit in the last three games since coming up to the Big Leagues.  It's reminiscent of Chad 'the incident' Gaudin who suddenly became the no. 2 most successful starter after coming up midseason. He may not be from Venezuela but we have questions about him, too, and not just his penchant for visiting young women on gurneys in hospitals.   And did we mention that one-third of the 




Giants non-extended team are Venezuelans (8)?

We're  afraid It's the same old Giants story, that of bringing in players, mostly Latin, er Venezuelans, in recent years - players who've done virtually nothing to distinguish themselves but once with the Giants they almost always hit 30-50 points higher than their career average - or the last team they came from. I know we're not supposed to talk this way but by now it's our strong belief that GM Sabean purposely goes after these rejects in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle, or , more likely something else in a bottle and syringe, perhaps. It's happened year after year in the lax state of baseball testing , which, by the way, hasn't caught a single player all year; baseball had to go after Biogenesis to save face since its own testing is well behind the curve of designer PEDs that go undetectable to their tests. You can chalk up some of the past to lack of good judgement  and the influence of Bonds around them - decent guys like Aurilia, Matt Williams, Santiago .  Then there were Mendoza guys like Marvin  Bernard  who were still able to raise their numbers into the respectable range. There was more innocense back then, except for Bonds  . Today, players should no better and we cant feel sorry for them .

We don't know where Petit is getting his stuff but it would seem there's plenty to go around once players land on the Giants. San Francisco is, after all, the BALCO and BONDS capital where it all really began in the most liberal city in America where the smell of canabis in the stands was rampant during their World Series home games. You can throw in local guys McGwire and Conseco, too , yet that was from a slighty earlier, not so much designer drug era.  If the Giants didn't have such a consistent history, year after year , of having convicted PED users (not to mention the ones not caught) we wouldn't be as quick to jump on this.  Just to many dots connected. Remember, it took almost 10 years before a couple of brave reporters  broke the Bonds  story

- And, just an afterthought or sidelight that we thought it rather bizarre that the Giants would  interview Petit - in Spanish , no less (Petit doesn't speak English after playing American basebally nearly 10 years)  over the PA system after the game.  If it had been  no hitter or perfect game

 it might be understandable but one there's a big difference between a one hitter and perfect game - agt least in status. 

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HOW GIANTS BEAT ALL ODDS TO WIN FIRST (2) WORLD SERIES IN 56 YEARS

For Giants Brandons The Unlikely Beat Goes On As Crawford and Belt Having Career Years

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FOLLOWING IS AN ARTICLE FROM A FEW YEARS BACK, BUT REMARKABLY, IT STILL APPLIES TO TODAY, EVEN MORESO.

 You're heard about new Giants' unlikely new stars, previous 'no-names'   Duffy, Panik and Heston.  Now Brandons Belt and Crawford  - veteran players who were very average minor and major league ball players until recently- have suddenly, inexplicably,  become 'stars'  for the Giants, this year already hitting more home runs , RBI's with higher averages  than anytime in their past major league years - and still with more than a month left in the season. With 19 homers, shortstop Brandon Crawford leads the world in homers - far more than his top competitor shortstops like Troy Tulowitzky -and even more than hometown superstar power-hitter Buster Posey(!) - all this playing in the difficult hitters ballpark known as AT&T , San Francisco. And Belt, even missing a month of the season, has more than Posey while having HIS career year!  And, we haven't even talked about a couple more Giants unlikely 'no-names',  Duffy and Panik , also suddenly hitting more homers in the majors this year, by far,  than anytime in the minors!) Exactly WHAT is in the water in the Giants' drinking fountain???

No team has had as many as SIX .300 hitters in their starting line-up since 1996 or more than that since 1973! The Giants have done it this year with only one lifetime .300 hitter. What's in the water in San Francisco? 

BRANDONS BELT & CRAWFORD APPEAR TO BEAT ODDS, COME FROM NOWHERE TO LEAD GIANTS PLAYOFF WIN

10-14 looking back to Saturday, March 30, 2013

'Dodgers can't buy chemistry' was the big quote from the lips of San Francisco Giants' starting first baseman,  Brandon Belt, earlier this year.

Moving ahead to 2014 and the first one game playoff against Pittsburg, the Brandons seemed to have no problem leading the way, accounting for all the runs. Especially interesting after Belt has been out until  recently and had no practice games, and Crawford was only hitting .220 until his  typical Giant sudden spurt to .250! 

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Funny thing is that the Giants DO have chemistry on their side,
but a lot of it comes in a bottle and syringe. Belt's confounding 8 spring homers is more
than his  ENTIRE 2012 season output! On top of that , he almost doubled his batting average,
 from .275 to .457!   Yes, we know it's spring training but still, that's
when the pitchers are often ahead of the hitters - and no other Giant hit more than four homers
(Pablo)... just another piece of wonderment on the Giants. One may not have concrete
evidence but there's sure got to be questions. And this, in light of Belt's muffled 'no'-comments about
the suspension and loss of Melky Cabrera last year...



As for the other Brandon, Crawford, he also raised his batting average  100 points this
spring training vs last season and doubled his slugging percentage with 10 extra base hits.
Note that he has also become mentored and good friends with Marco Scutaro, last seasons
most likely non-caught user of PEDs; Scuatro also raised his average 100 points just
after coming to the Giants from Colorado last season and likely has passed on some of 
his 'knowledge' to at least this Brandon, much like Melky passed it onto his fellow
venezuelan when Scutaro first joined the Giants, midseason 20120, prior to Cabrera's
suspension.' 


As for Scutaro, who's numbers WERE actually down in spring training, it may be due to
injuries, or , maybe he is saving himself for the season.


The fact of the matter is that , with this new knowledge that  Brandons may be onto something-whether illegal or legal, like the new popular 'legal'Adderall, below - who heretofore  we thought and hoped to be clean - hearly  every Giant, it would appear from suddenly increased numbers and fewer strikeouts,   starting player it would appear has used or is using PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). Perhaps the Brandons were under too much pressure to reach that potential that had long gone unfulfilled.   No heavyscience here, just too many questions. And, combine this with some real science and numbers - 
see http://wheredidyougojoedimaggio1.blogspot.com  -  and read all the posts form last year and together you've got a mountain of evidence that points the Giants  further advancing a  the PED tradition that began over a decade ago with Barry Bonds where now likely every starter but probably Posey has likely used or is using PEDs. Only the names have changed, in our opinion..

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New (Legal) Baseball PED of Choice Used by 119 Players, Up From Last Year

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So, now the starting lineup is secure of PED players, either former users or current...
with Buster Posey the only player  unlikely  using...
probably so squeaky clean he doesn't even know the others have been or are using - and now
his unheard of nine year contract...


PS Don't you love the way the Giants go out and try to nail down nearly every starting player
to long term contracts, especially with their track record  , going back
to Rennie Stennett and even Orlando Cepeda for Ray Sedeki... Aaron Rowand, Huff, Zito
(even though he's redeemed himself the past season after four bad ones @ $20K per, etc..

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HOW GIANTS BEAT ALL ODDS TO WIN FIRST (2) WORLD SERIES IN 56 YEARS

7-28-15   Four Giants among the major league leaders  ?  Based on past averages only Posey should have such consideration. What's in the water at AT&T Park?

The Brandons Appear to Complete Giants All-PED Opening Lineup